A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Institutionalizing the program

ICT program implementation in schools in India is usually through the BOOT model, where the implementation is outsourced to a business entity. In this situation the vendor provides basic ICT literacy to students, bypassing the regular teachers. Since the teachers are not a part of the ICT program, they have seldom evinced interest in learning ICTs for their professional development. This has meant that the digital capacities of teachers is usually poor. Secondly, the regular subject teaching does not require the use of digital processes at all in most states, hence teachers do not need to become digitally literate. As a consequence, access to and creation of digital resources by teachers is rare in most states. However,there is an increasing move from the outsourced design of ICT programsin schools,to a greater role for regular subject teachers in deliveringtheir subjects through the use of digital technologies. In thisnew approach, where the program is being implementedwith the help of teachers, there is a need for teachers to become digitally literate. Education departments are also looking at how to develop locally relevant content, using the internal capabilities of the system, viz. Their own school teachers, as suggested by the National ICT Policy on Education.

Participatory TPD FOSS Integration in the regular TE program of the department